Quotes

Quotes about Affection

E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow That innocence can give, When its resistless accents flow To bid affection live.

Robert Bloomfield

Entire affection hateth nicer hands.

Edmund Spenser

A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

George Eliot

There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy. - Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater"),

Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater")

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

Louise Euripides

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.

Elizabeth Kubler-ross

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.

W. Somerset Maugham

Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection. - Letters to His Son, W. B. Yeats and Others.

Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow. . -Thomas Bray.

Thomas Bray

Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of dutiful love.

D. D. Field

Would I describe a preacher, . . . . I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.

William Cowper

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

Josh Billings

A kiss to or from a woman we love is a far too delicate pledge of affection to bear the gaze of strangers.

Christopher Nyrop

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; which proceed sciences which may be called "sciences as one would." For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature, from superstition; the light of experience, from arrogance and pride; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar. Numberless in short are the ways, and sometimes imperceptible, in which the affections color and infect the understanding.

Francis Bacon

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

Francis Bacon

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; which proceed sciences which may be called "sciences as one would." For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature, from superstition; the light of experience, from arrogance and pride; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar. Numberless in short are the ways, and sometimes imperceptible, in which the affections color and infect the understanding.

Francis Bacon

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.

Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!